Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Cátia Cristina da Silva Oliveira | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1991-06-12) 12 June 1991 (age 33) Cerqueira César, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | http://catiaoliveira.com.br/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Para table tennis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Class 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Paralympic finals | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Cátia Cristina da Silva Oliveira (born 12 June 1991) is a Brazilian Para table tennis player and former footballer. Cátia won a gold medal at the 2015 Parapan American Games and was selected for the 2016 Paralympic Games in her home country. Cátia began playing table tennis in 2013 and developed quickly, winning a place on Brazil's national team in time for the 2015 Parapan American Games. In October 2018 she won a silver medal at the World Para Table Tennis Championships in Slovenia. She was bereaved by the untimely death of her father during the tournament.
Botucatu Futebol Clube signed Cátia as a promising footballer when she was 14 years old. In October 2007, teammate Renata Costa was driving Cátia and Michele in her Opel Corsa when she crashed into another car at a level crossing. Michele and Renata suffered minor injuries, while Cátia, who was asleep in the back seat, suffered a spinal cord injury resulting in paraplegia. Costa was fined $576 for driving without a licence. Cátia had been called up to the Brazil women's national under-17 football team on the day of the accident.
In June 2021 she was one of the women as part of Brazil's table tennis team for the 2020 Paralympic Games which were delayed for a year due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The other athletes were Bruna Costa Alexandre (class 10), Danielle Rauen (in class 9) and Joyce Oliveira (in class 4).
References
- Werlang, Hector (9 September 2016). "O tempo de Cátia: como o tênis de mesa a levou ao sonho da seleção" (in Portuguese). Rede Globo. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- "Cátia Oliveira é vice-campeã Mundial na Eslovênia" (in Portuguese). Olimpíada Todo Dia. 20 October 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- Agassi, Gilmar (18 October 2007). "Após acidente, Renata está apta a jogar" (in Portuguese). Jornal Folha de Londrina. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- de Cássia Cornélio, Rita (20 October 2007). "Acidente com jogadoras gera polêmica" (in Portuguese). Jornal da Cidade. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- "Cátia: Jogadora que provocou acidente não possui habilitação" (in Portuguese). O Estado de S. Paulo. 18 October 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- "Jogadora envolvida em acidente não tem habilitação" (in Portuguese). Rede Globo. 18 October 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- "Com time de sparrings de alto nível, Seleção paralímpica de tênis de mesa encerra semana de treinamentos em São Paulo - Surto Olímpico". www.surtoolimpico.com.br. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
External links
- Cátia Oliveira at Sambafoot (archived)
- 1991 births
- Brazilian female table tennis players
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic table tennis players for Brazil
- Living people
- Brazilian women's footballers
- Women's association football midfielders
- Footballers from São Paulo (state)
- Botucatu Futebol Clube players
- Table tennis players at the 2023 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Parapan American Games
- 21st-century Brazilian sportswomen